The storming of their favourite positions - stockades strengthened with rifle-pits - was often costly; and a strange anti-Christian fanaticism, the Hau-Hau cult, encouraged them to face the white men's bullets and bayonets. [Please select]
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Rangoon having been bombarded by the squadron, the troops landed, and drove the enemy, after some severe fighting, from their stockades. [Please select]
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The steamers had many difficulties to encounter, as thick stockades had been placed across the channel, through which they had to force their way. [Please select]
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Vaulting from their foaming steeds they tied them to the stockades of the little fortress, which they entered in a body. [Please select]
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But as time rolled on many of these more adventurous settlers found themselves isolated from the villages and stockades. [Please select]
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Here and there burnt holes gaped in the stockades like wounds. [Please select]
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] A great fire had been kindled inside the court of the Cree stockades. [Please select]
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So the English sat snugly secure inside their stockades, lords of the wilderness, and drove a thriving trade with folded hands. [Please select]
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I entered the corral, where most of my men had sheltered themselves behind the stockades. [Please select]
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There was a company of soldiers under command of an experienced United States officer, and they knew well enough to keep within the protection of their stockades, except when making reconnoissances in force. [Please select]
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Leaving their families as far as possible under the protection of stockades or of the towns, the patriots flocked to the mustering-grounds; many, like Cincinnatus of old, deserted the plough in midfield. [Please select]
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